25 Jan 2015

In the wake of the successful High Court challenge to the federal government’s controversial school chaplaincy program, Rear Vision looks at the unusual relationship between education, religion and the state in Australia.

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22 Jun 2014

In the wake of the successful High Court challenge to the federal government’s controversial school chaplaincy program, Rear Vision looks at the unusual relationship between education, religion and the state in Australia.

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27 Jan 2010

Google's ambitious plan to make all the world's books available online through Google Book Search has generated enormous public debate, especially after the legal settlement over copyright with authors and publishers in 2008. The case has implications for anyone involved in the writing, publishing and selling of books around the world - as well as for readers.

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16 Dec 2009

Overseas students have been coming to Australia since the 1950s. Although for the first 30 years they came as our guests, today they are full-fee paying students, worth billions of dollars every year. How and why did this change occur and what impact has it had on our institutions of higher education?

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5 Aug 2009

Overseas students have been coming to Australia since the 1950s, for the first 30 years they came as our guests, today they are full paying students paying us billions of dollars every year. So how and why did this change occur? And what impact has the change had on our higher education institutions?

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14 Oct 2007

The Federal government has announced a plan to reintroduce hospital-based training for some nurses, away from the TAFEs and universities where it currently takes place. Rear Vision traces the evolution of nursing education in Australia.

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